Secret Service has a new dangerous Twitter plan

June 6, 2014 in Video by The Manimal

The Secret Service just listed a work order for software that can track and analyze Twitter data in a wide variety of ways. Some of them are quite humorous. For instance, they want new software that can detect sarcasm on Twitter, so they can tell who is joking about threatening the President and who really means it. But some of the ways the Secret Service wants to analyze Twitter data are not so funny, including their request to have software that can identify influencers online. The Resident discusses.